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2025-01-12 Covid: Court overturns suspension of Alberta Staff Sgt. Richard Abbott over Convoy speech. Western Standard,

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An Alberta police officer suspended without pay for speaking at a Freedom Convoy rally has won his case in court, with an Edmonton judge ruling the punishment unjustified.

Justice James Nelson of Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench found the disciplinary action against Staff Sgt. Richard Abbott of the Edmonton Police Service flawed.

“Facts and evidence were garbled in justifying the suspension,” Nelson wrote. He noted that while police officers are held to higher standards limiting their freedom of expression, the specific circumstances of Abbott’s case did not support the penalty.

Abbott, a 26-year veteran with no prior misconduct, was suspended in 2022 after delivering a videotaped speech at a Freedom Convoy rally in Milk River, Alberta.

Then-Police Chief Dale McFee accused Abbott of breaching Police Service Regulations by engaging in political activity that could undermine public confidence in police impartiality.

“Your conduct of engaging in the political activity of the Freedom Convoy is likely to interfere with and adversely influence decisions you are required to make in the performance of your duties,” McFee wrote.

He claimed Abbott’s actions created a conflict of interest and could erode trust in the police’s ability to act impartially, particularly regarding protestors involved in illegal activities.

The Police Service mistakenly alleged Abbott attended and supported the unlawful border blockade at Coutts. Abbott successfully argued that he had only attended a peaceful protest miles away in Milk River, never endorsed illegal activities, and did not use social media to promote the movement.

Abbott expressed opposition to vaccine mandates and voiced support for the peaceful aims of the Freedom Convoy. This distinction proved significant, Nelson ruled, leading the Court to overturn the suspension.

The case highlighted broader concerns about law enforcement personnel sympathizing with the Freedom Convoy. Federal records noted that some RCMP and Canadian Armed Forces members had shown support for the movement.

An April 2022 RCMP memo acknowledged “former and current members participating in the protest,” though it did not specify numbers.

Similarly, Department of National Defence memos identified at least eight known Convoy sympathizers at military bases across the country.

While acknowledging the right of military members to personal opinions, the Defence Department characterized public support for the Convoy as a breach of its Code of Service Discipline, citing regulations on public commentary.

2025-01-11 Covid / Censorship / Free Speech / Tech Platforms / Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan / “Misinformation”. From Reclaim the Net (U.K.)

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Meta Doesn’t Understand Free Speech

 

Meta’s latest promise to “restore free expression” sounds bold, but the reality is far more complicated.

Despite loosening some restrictions, Meta still tightly controls what users can say—banning everything from certain political discussions to sarcastic jokes and even dark humor aimed at public figures.

Strict policies against “dehumanizing language” and “allegations of serious immorality” blur the line between protecting users and silencing important conversations.

Today, we analyze the cracks in Meta’s policies – and there are a lot.

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Biden Slams Meta’s Move to Drop Controversial “Fact-Checkers”

 

President Joe Biden harshly criticized Meta’s decision to eliminate its professional fact-checking program in favor of user-driven community notes, labeling the move as “really shameful.” His comments, delivered during a press conference following a speech on economic progress, reveal a concerning push for increased control over online discourse.

Watch the video here.

Biden’s statements came on the same day Biden criticized Meta when Zuckerberg appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, revealing that the Biden administration had actively pressured Meta to censor content related to COVID-19. Zuckerberg disclosed that officials repeatedly contacted Meta, demanding the removal of memes and truthful posts critical of COVID-19 vaccines. He recounted how the White House would “call up our team and scream at them and curse” over content they deemed unacceptable.

Zuckerberg pointed to a specific incident where the administration pushed for the deletion of a meme featuring Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV with a caption suggesting future legal actions over the COVID-19 vaccine.

Zuckerberg resisted, stating, “No we’re not we’re not going to take down humor,” emphasizing that his team would not remove content that was humorous and not factually false. Despite Meta’s history of censoring similar content, Zuckerberg insisted, “Basically, it just got to this point where we were like no, we’re not going to take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous.”

Zuckerberg also said that the Biden administration pressured for the censorship of truthful information.

“Basically, it just got to this point where we were like no, we’re not going to take down things that are true,” Zuckerberg said. “That’s ridiculous.”

Zuckerberg’s decision to dismantle the platform’s fact-checking system announced just before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, has drawn polarized reactions. While Democrats decry the change, Republicans, including Trump, have long accused Meta of silencing conservative voices.

Zuckerberg openly admitted that scaling back content moderation might allow more harmful content to circulate, but he also recognized the need to move away from biased oversight.

Biden criticized the autonomy of private tech leaders, stating, “The idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something and say, ‘By the way, from this point on, we’re not going to fact-check anything.’ And you know, when you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff … I think it’s really shameful.”

 

 

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Newsom Defends Wildfire Response, Tells Biden Online “Misinformation” Needs to be Combatted

 

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) shifted focus to combating “misinformation” during a briefing on the devastating wildfires ravaging Los Angeles. The session included President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, with Newsom and Bass addressing concerns over their administration’s preparedness as the fires claimed at least 10 lives and destroyed countless homes.

Watch the video here.

Conducted in a hybrid format, the meeting saw Biden and Harris in the Oval Office while Newsom, Bass, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell joined via video call. Newsom described the unprecedented destruction fueled by what he called “hurricane-force winds, the likes of which we’ve never imagined in our lifetime.” He then pivoted to warn about the spread of misinformation related to the disaster.

“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation. There were hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation — lies,” Newsom stated. “People want to divide this country, and we’re gonna have to address that as well. And it breaks my heart, as people are suffering and struggling that we’re up against those hurricane force forces as well.”

Expressing frustration, Newsom added, “And that’s just a point of personal privilege that I share that with you because it infects real people that are out there. People I meet every single day, people the mayor has been meeting with, and they’re having conversations that are not the typical conversations you’d have at this time be in. And you wonder where this stuff comes from, and it’s very damaging as well, but we’re here to get the job done; to be here for folks to focus.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a barrage of criticism from various quarters, highlighting several contentious issues, particularly related to a lack of preparation for combatting wildfires under his governance.

Newsom’s timing is ironic as Biden has been criticized heavily today for his previous attempts to police “misinformation” online.

On the same day Newsom appealed to Biden about online “misinformation,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed on The Joe Rogan Experience that the Biden administration pressured his company to censor COVID-19-related content, including truthful criticism of the vaccines.

Zuckerberg revealed that officials would “call up our team and scream at them and curse” over certain posts. A notable incident involved demands to remove a meme.

Zuckerberg emphasized, “Basically, it just got to this point where we were like no, we’re not going to take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous.”

This revelation, although not new, highlights a troubling pattern of government pressure on tech companies to suppress speech, raising serious concerns about censorship and the erosion of free expression. As wildfires continue to devastate communities, efforts to control narratives under the guise of combating misinformation risk silencing legitimate discourse. The public’s right to transparent and open communication remains more critical than ever in times of national emergencies.

 

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Mark Zuckerberg Falsely Claims “You Can’t Yell ‘Fire’ in a Crowder Theater” To Justify Covid Censorship

 

In his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s early COVID-19 content moderation policies by invoking the often-quoted but inaccurate legal principle, “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.” Zuckerberg cited this rationale to justify the platform’s censorship of certain information during the pandemic’s onset.

More: Yes, you can yell “fire” in a crowded theater

“COVID was the other big one where that was also very tricky because, you know, at the beginning, it was – you know, it’s like a legitimate public health crisis, you know, in the beginning. And it’s – you know, even people who were like the most ardent First Amendment defenders, the Supreme Court has this clear precedent. It’s like, all right, you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.

There are times when, if there is an emergency, your ability to speak can temporarily be curtailed in order to get an emergency under control,” Zuckerberg said.

This statement leans on a widely misunderstood legal argument. The phrase “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” originates from a 1919 Supreme Court opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, which was later overturned and criticized for its justification of speech suppression. Zuckerberg’s use of this outdated precedent is misleading and offers a flawed defense for restricting speech on Meta’s platforms.

Zuckerberg elaborated on his stance, expressing initial trust in government and health authorities: “So I was sympathetic to that at the beginning of COVID. It seemed like, OK, you have this virus. It seems like it’s killing a lot of people. I don’t know. We didn’t know at the time how dangerous it was going to be. So at the beginning, it kind of seemed like, OK, we should give a little bit of deference to the government and the health authorities on how we should play this.”

However, Zuckerberg acknowledged the shifting narratives from health officials, which complicated content censorship decisions. “But when it went from, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve to, you know, in like – in the beginning, it was like, OK, there aren’t enough masks. Masks aren’t that important. To then it’s like, oh, no, you have to wear a mask. And, you know, all the – like, everything was shifting around. I – it’s become very difficult to kind of follow.”

The discredited legal metaphor has drawn criticism from free speech advocates. Such justification enables tech giants to overstep in moderating content, especially in moments of crisis when diverse perspectives are most crucial.

Equating speech to violence or danger is an easy excuse to censor controversial speech.

 

BUT DIDN’T CHALLENGE IT

 

 

Mark Zuckerberg Calls Biden Administration’s Pressure to Censor COVID-19 Content “Illegal”

 

In a candid interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized the Biden administration’s approach to social media content moderation during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that government pressure to censor certain content “violated the law.”

Zuckerberg reflected on the role that platforms like Facebook played in moderating COVID-19 information, acknowledging that his company often deferred to government guidance when it came to implementing censorship policies. However, he expressed regret over how this deference contributed to suppressing truthful content.

“I don’t think that the pushing for social media companies to censor stuff was legal,” Zuckerberg stated. He elaborated, emphasizing the distinction between private companies’ content moderation policies and government-imposed censorship. “The First Amendment doesn’t apply to companies in our content moderation. It’s more of an American ethos about how we think that best dialogue is carried out. But the First Amendment does apply to the government. That’s the whole point, is the government is not allowed to censor this stuff.”

Zuckerberg detailed instances where members of the Biden administration pressured Meta employees with aggressive tactics. “Having people in the administration calling up the guys on our team and yelling at them and cursing and threatening repercussions if we don’t take down things that are true is like—it’s pretty bad,” he said.

Joe Rogan responded, “It sounds illegal,” to which Zuckerberg agreed, stating, “I think that they had a kind of goal that they thought was in the interests of the country, and the way they went about it, I think violated the law.”

However, despite Zuckerberg’s acknowledgment of government pressure, Meta notably did not participate in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which later evolved into Murthy v. Missouri. This lawsuit challenged the Biden administration’s coercion of social media companies to suppress certain viewpoints. Testimony from Meta about the administration’s pressure could have significantly strengthened the case, especially after the Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiffs, the censored victims, lacked standing. If Meta, as the direct recipient of censorship demands from the Biden administration, had become a plaintiff, the case could have been bolstered.

Not only did Meta not go to court to challenge these censorship demands, but it was revealed that Meta even developed a special portal for the White House to flag content for removal. This direct channel facilitated the suppression of lawful speech.

Even after recognizing the legal and ethical issues, Meta continued to censor truthful information.

Additionally, Meta has faced ongoing criticism for its decision to ban former President Donald Trump from its platforms and for censoring the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop prior to the 2020 election.

 

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2025-01-11 Atomic Reaction – Feature Canadian Documentary on CBC Gem

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Jan 112025
 

 

Canadian Friends and Colleagues:

 

There is a great documentary film, “Atomic Reaction”, that can be viewed on CBC Gem as of January 10.

It features Gordon Edwards, Robert Del Tredici, Faye More, Peter Van Wyck, Cindy Gilday and other notable Canadians.

 

It tells the story of Canada’s involvement in the development of the world’s first atomic bombs, and the subsequent buildup in nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

 

In particular it focuses on the town of Port Hope, Ontario, where (in the early years of World War II) a radium refinery was converted into a uranium refinery to meet the military needs of the World War II Atomic Bomb Project, called “The Manhattan Project” by the USA and “Tube Alloys” by Great Britain. The radioactive ore was mined on the Eastern end of Great Bear Lake — a place that came to be known as Port Radium — starting in 1931. The ore was carried on the backs of Indigenous men from the Sahtu Dene nation, loaded onto a barge for the eight-hour trip across the Lake to the western end. The Indigenous ore carriers rested on the sacks of radioactive material and then unmopaded the ore from the Lake barge onto a river barge, eventually being shipped over 3000 kilometres to the Eldorado company headquarters at Port Hope on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

 

Atomic Reaction is 89 minutes long.

Atomic Reaction | Films | CBC Gem

 

Unfortunately, CBC Gem is not available to viewers outside of Canada!  (INSERT, sandra:  for political reasons)

 

In the film, the story of the bomb is interspersed with the ongoing radioactive cleanup of the town of Port Hope following massive and widespread radioactive contamination caused by the careless dumping of refinery waste into the Port Hope harbour, the town’s public beach, several deep ravines freely accessible to children and pets, as well as the use of huge quantities of radioactive waste material in the construction of roadways, over 1000 homes, several schools, civic buildings, and municipal dumps such as the one at Port Granby, as well as the Monkey Mountain and Welcome dumps. At a cost of 1.2 billion dollars which has now escalated to more than twice that amount, the federal “cleanup” of Port Hope has recently had its licence extended for another 10 years, as tens of thousands of trees are being cleared to access and remove the arsenic and uranium contamination underneath them.

 

Of course, radioactive waste cannot be destroyed or neutralized by any practical and affordable method known to science, it can only be moved from one place to another and repackaged or consolidated to make it less available to the environment. The end result is two gigantic earthen mounds — one at Port Hope and one at Port Granby — containing most of the township’s radioactive and other toxic waste, in so-called “engineered mounds” that are designed to last for about 500 years. The wastes themselves remain dangerous for much longer periods of time, many millennia. It is acknowledged that the mounds are not a permanent solution. After a few centuries a decision will have to be made as to what should be done next.

 

The documentary does not address the story of the federal government’s Siting Task Force, which spent 8 years and several millions of dollars trying to find a “willing host community” somewhere in Ontario to receive all of Port Hope’s radioactive waste for a more permanent disposal (never clearly specified). This was considered necessary because an Environmental Assessment Panel had determined that the geography and geology of the Port Hope area was not acceptable for permanent storage of long-lived radioactive waste. The search for a willing host community involved many potential candidates, willing to learn more about the concept, including many communities in Northwestern Ontario such as Atikokan.

 

Ultimately, the Siting Task Force came up empty-handed. There was not a single community that was willing to accept the Port Hope wastes, except for the nuclear “bedroom community” of Chalk River/Deep River on the Ottawa River. However, the geology/ geography was not much better than that off Port Hope, and the Chalk River folks drove too hard a bargain that the Siting Task Force found unacceptable. So the “two mounds” solution is really a kind of “booby prize” — a fallback approach because the first plan flopped.

 

Now the two giant radioactive  mounds for the naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) of Port Hope/Port Granby are being used by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to build a similar enormous “engineered mound” to house about a million tons of toxic waste, much of it human0-made post-fission radioactive waste, about one kilometre from the Ottawa River. CNL: (which is also in charge of the Port Hope “cleanup”) is owned and run by a consortium of multinational corporations headed by Atkins-Réalis (the latter-day reincarnation of SNC-Lavalin) and two Texas giants, Fluor and Jacibs, that are deeply involved in military nuclear projects as well as intractable radioactive contamination nightmares such as those at Hanford Washington and Sellafiield England. In 2023, the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) estimated the cost off the Hanford Cleanuop to be somewhere between $300 billion and $640 billion! Yet the Canadian Government calls nuclear energy “clean”.

 

But I digress. “Atomic Reaction” is a fine documentaly film that does a great job of breaking the surface of the profound and complex nuclear saga of Port Hope Ontario.

 

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Gordon Edwards.

 

 

 

 

2025-01-10 ‘Bogus prosecution’: disciplinary hearings resume for Ottawa detective Helen Grus over COVID investigation

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Jan 102025
 
From  Tamara Ugolini,  Rebel News:

This week, I attended a police disciplinary hearing for Helen Grus, who is being investigated for and charged with discreditable conduct for attempting to probe a string of sudden infant deaths after the rollout of the novel COVID-19 mRNA injections.

Grus has faced approximately 30 hearing days, spanning two years, for allegedly accessing the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) database without authorization. If found guilty, it could mean a demotion or termination for the 20-year OPS veteran.

Her case has raised great interest among the policing community, with many retired police officers regularly attending her hearings.

That includes Rob Stocki, who called the entire investigation a “terrible miscarriage of justice.”

Take a look:

Grus had a spotless record and was part of the Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Unit at the OPS — a unit responsible for investigating instances of sudden, unexplained deaths in children under the age of five.

Stocki pointed out that Grus’ investigation fell well within her mandate to look into these questionable deaths. But, she ran afoul of her superiors, who wanted to put a stop to any investigations to do with COVID.

Through it all, Grus has been saddled with the financial burden of this political prosecution while being dragged through the mud by her employer and state-funded media.

I will continue to follow how these hearings progress and will report what I learn at RebelFieldReports.com. If you find value in this coverage, please consider supporting our independent journalism with a donation on that website.

Yours truly,

Tamara Ugolini

P.S. At Rebel News, we don’t take a dime from the government — we rely entirely on our generous viewers to fund our work. If you appreciate reports like this one, where we go into the field to get the other side of the story, you can make a donation at RebelFieldReports.com.

2025-01-09 Crown seeks jail time for pair convicted of mischief at Coutts border blockade, CP

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Jan 092025
 
I think this is evidence that Government-supported media is being forced to REPORT what people in a democracy NEED.
BUT:  it takes too long to dig through to confirm that CP received Government support money during the covid years?  Do you know?
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — One of two men who became the faces of a blockade at a key Alberta border crossing in 2022 offered a public apology Thursday at the end of sentencing arguments.
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
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A sentencing hearing is to start Thursday for three men convicted of helping co-ordinate the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 in protest of COVID-19 rules and restrictions. A truck adorned with Canadian and American flags is shown at the blockade, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — One of two men who became the faces of a blockade at a key Alberta border crossing in 2022 offered a public apology Thursday at the end of sentencing arguments.

“As one of the protesters, I understand that our actions, well intended to voice our concerns on important issues, adversely affected the daily lives of many in Milk River and Coutts. For this I am sincerely sorry,” said Gerhard (George) Janzen at the end of the day, reading from a prepared statement.

“I acknowledge that during our protests, laws were broken. This was not in line with our intentions to promote change through peaceful and lawful means.”

Janzen, Marco Van Huigenbos and a third man — Alex Van Herk — were found guilty last year of mischief over $5,000 for their actions at the protest over COVID-19 measures and vaccine mandates.

The sentencing hearing went ahead for Van Huigenbos and Janzen. Lawyer Michael Johnston told court that Van Herk had fired him, and a 30-day delay was granted for Van Herk to obtain new counsel.

The Crown told court that the two men need to do jail time to send a message that actions have consequences.

Prosecutor Steven Johnston said Van Huigenbos and Janzen put themselves front and centre at the illegal blockade, which shut down the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts for two weeks.

Johnston recommended Van Huigenbos be sentenced to nine months and Janzen six months.

He told Justice Keith Yamauchi that Van Huigenbos was more to blame, as he was in a leadership position.

“These two men are not at the same level,” Johnston told the first day of the two-day hearing.

“It is the Crown’s view that, realistically, the most appropriate sentence for these gentlemen is to sentence them to a term of jail — real jail.

“You can’t break the law and not expect to be punished for it.”

Brendan Miller, the lawyer representing Van Huigenbos, told court his client’s underlying motive was political advocacy and the desire to be heard by the government.

He asked for an absolute or conditional discharge, a suspended sentence with probation or community service.

If the court decides jail time is warranted, Miller said, then the sentence should be short or a conditional sentence of 60 days to be served in the community.

“Mr. Van Huigenbos’s right to equality before the law will be violated if he is not put in the same position of the hundreds of … protesters that the RCMP did not charge and the Crown did not prosecute,” Miller said.

“Why should this court send these gentlemen to jail and give them a criminal record when the police decided not to charge the 300 principal offenders. It’s not fair. It’s unequal.”

He said his client didn’t physically participate in the blockade or instruct protesters. Van Huigenbos simply showed up and negotiated with the RCMP on behalf of the main protesters, said Miller.

The Crown said it’s an aggravating factor that the men were motivated by politics.

“Politically motivated crime always is a calculated decision … we don’t change our governments in this country through criminal acts,” Johnston said.

“This was the hostage taking of a highway with the goal of creating political change.”

Alan Honner, who is representing Janzen, said he would also like his client to be given an absolute discharge, a fine or a suspended sentence, saying his client played just a minor role at the blockade.

“You should reject any submissions that Mr. Janzen should be incarcerated,” Honner said.

The courtroom was packed Thursday, and about a dozen police officers on bicycles were outside.

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski, who was also convicted of mischief for a speech he gave to protesters at Coutts, said he was praying that Van Huigenbos and Janzen wouldn’t suffer jail time.

Defence lawyers didn’t call evidence during the trial, and Van Huigenbos, Janzen and Van Herk didn’t testify.

Mounties told the jury that, as the protest dragged on, officers increasingly turned to the three men to negotiate. The Crown argued the trio became the faces of the blockade and spoke on behalf of protesters.

In a separate case, protesters Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert were charged with conspiracy to murder police officers at the blockade.

In September, a jury found them not guilty of that offence but convicted them of possessing a firearm dangerous to the public peace and mischief over $5,000. Olienick was also convicted of possessing a pipe bomb.

They were each sentenced to 6 1/2 years behind bars. Their mischief convictions netted concurrent terms of six months.

Yamauchi said he would deliver his sentence Friday afternoon.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 9, 2025.

Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press

2024- It ain’t over, Mark Zuckerberg. CHD

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Jan 092025
 

In his announcement this week, Mark Zuckerberg claimed Facebook would end its third-party “fact-checking” program . . .  to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms.

He admitted Facebook had “gone too far” with its “fact-checking.”

Interesting timing…less than 24 hours after Children’s Health Defense asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our censorship lawsuit against Facebook.

Most of the censorship we faced had to do with COVID-related posts — posts about vaccine injuries, alternate treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, competing theories about whether COVID originated in nature or leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Facebook silenced the debates. It shut down the “free expression” and exchange of information.

And it did it by kicking CHD — and many of you! — off Facebook and Instagram. To keep us from raising questions and sharing facts.

CHD eagerly awaits action by Mark Zuckerberg to reinstate our censored and banned accounts and those of many others. However, our work doesn’t stop there.

How many lives were lost or forever changed due to the censorship of critical information?

Where is the justice for our children and our loved ones?

Returning our right to free speech is not enough, it’s only the beginning.

We will not stop this fight until justice is served.

 
Mary Holland
CEO
Children’s Health Defense

2024-12-19 ‘RFK, Polio Vaccines, the Media and Me’: Lawyer Corrects New York Times Misinformation. by Brenda Baletti, CHD

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Dec 242024
 

Thank goodness for the overwhelming number of GOOD people willing to set the record straight.

This is for soon-to-be  MOTHERS AND FATHERS.   Please  circulate it.   I don’t know how else they will be likely to ever know.

 

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‘RFK, Polio Vaccines, the Media and Me’: Lawyer Corrects New York Times Misinformation

Attorney Aaron Siri set the record straight in a Wall Street Journal op-ed after The New York Times and other media outlets falsely implied he had asked the FDA, on behalf of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to revoke the license for the polio vaccine.

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
December 19, 2024
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Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of articles by The Defender responding to the latest media coverage of vaccines, triggered by the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

An attorney associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday accused mainstream media of “deliberately stoking fear and outrage about vaccines in an attempt to derail Donald Trump’s nomination” of Kennedy for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, Aaron Siri said a recent New York Times report mischaracterized three narrow petitions his firm filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The petitions raised concerns about specific versions of three different vaccines, including one polio vaccine.

Contrary to the Times headline, “Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine,” the petitions did not ask the FDA to revoke the polio or any other vaccine.

The Times also wrongly implied that Siri filed the petitions on behalf of Kennedy.

“The attempts to stoke fear are based on legal work I did for a different client, which I never discussed with Mr. Kennedy,” Siri wrote.

Although Siri said he has worked for Kennedy, including representing Kennedy’s presidential campaign, he filed the FDA petitions on behalf of another client — Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN).

Siri explained that one of the petitions he filed on behalf of ICAN related to IPOL, one of six polio-containing vaccines currently licensed by the FDA. The drug protects people from severe symptoms but does not stop transmission.

Citing FDA documents, Siri wrote that IPOL was licensed for children based on a clinical trial with no control group and only three days of safety review after injection. That is “patently insufficient” to determine possible effects on growing children, he said. Most drugs go through multiyear placebo-controlled trials.

ICAN’s petition asked the FDA to require a proper trial for IPOL, especially given that under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 IPOL’s manufacturer, Sanofi, is protected from liability for injuries caused by the vaccine.

Siri wrote:

“No one, least of all our client, wants anyone to have polio. The goal is simply to ensure that vaccines are subject to proper testing for safety and efficacy. The media’s outrage should be directed at the FDA, which licensed a novel vaccine after collecting so little data.”

ICAN filed a second petition with the FDA pertaining to the use of two hepatitis B vaccines for infants and toddlers. The FDA licensed the vaccines based on trials with no control group and monitored the trial participants for side effects for a period of only five or fewer days after vaccination.

“The media again ignored this serious safety gap while making it appear that our client sought to eliminate all hepatitis B vaccines, which isn’t anywhere close to being true,” Siri wrote.

ICAN filed the third petition in response to a peer-reviewed study that found the amount of aluminum adjuvant — a cytotoxic and neurotoxic vaccine ingredient added to generate a stronger immune response — in 13 vaccines did not match the amount listed on the FDA-approved label.

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The petition asked the FDA to confirm that the vaccines were accurately labeled or to pause their distribution until it could do so.

Siri wrote:

“This shouldn’t have been a controversial request. Everyone should agree that the label on a product that is injected into babies should reflect what is in the vial. It is hard to see how anyone can read these petitions and not share these concerns.”

Since Congress passed the 1986 act, the number of vaccines the CDC recommends for children during their first year of life has jumped from three to 29, Siri wrote.

During that time rates of chronic diseases among children have skyrocketed.

Siri concluded:

“We must be able to raise valid questions about vaccines without fear that anyone who deviates from the accepted orthodoxy will be smeared as a radical. There are many issues that divide Americans, but drug and vaccine safety should unite us.

“The media should take a second look at what vaccine-safety advocates are actually saying. Then we can have a scientifically informed national conversation about how to ensure that the medications we give our children are safe.”

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.

2024-12-17 COVID: Ousted health-care workers file class action against Ontario’s vaccine mandate. By Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News.

 Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Dec 222024
 

A good interview.  The details of the situation are important.

Scarlett Martyn, a Toronto paramedic with 23 years of experience, is the spokeswoman for a class-action lawsuit on behalf of United Health Care Workers of Ontario (UHCWO) against the Victorian Order of Nurses, His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario, and Dr. Kieran Michael Moore, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health.  . . .

The claim names Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore, seeking damages for wrongful dismissal, breach of contract, aggravated and punitive damages, misfeasance in office, and other violations related to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Tamara Ugolini


https://www.rebelnews.com/ousted_healthcare_workers_file_class_action_against_ontario_s_vaccine_mandate?utm_campaign=rrup_122024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

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